Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> That's like 20% of the original, with all the obvious distribution 
> advantages.

Btw, does anybody know roughly how much data a initial "cvs co" takes on 
the mozilla repo? Git will obviously get the whole history, and that will 
inevitably be bigger than getting a single check-out, but it's not 
necessarily orders of magnitude bigger.

It could be that getting a whole git archive is not _that_ much more 
expnsive than getting a single version, considering how well history 
compresses (eg the kernel git arhive isn't orders of magnitude bigger than 
a single compressed tar-ball of the sources).

At that point, it's probably a pretty usable alternative.

(Although, to be fair, we almost certainly have to improve "git-rev-list 
--objects --all" performance on that thing, since that's going to 
otherwise make it totally impossible to do initial clones using the native 
git protocol, and make git look bad).

			Linus